Nikos Mouat (nikm@cyberflunk.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Hi.
> 1) There is apparently a POP3 server built into the inetd... yes?
> No? If so, it's sure not working for me. /etc/inetd.conf lists
> POP2, POP3, and IMAP services, but when I try to connect, nothing
> happens. Anyone know why this would be? Am I just stupid and reading
> the /etc/inetd.conf wrong?
No, pop3 is not built into inetd, rather inetd spawns a pop3 server. You
can get and install the qualcomm pop3 server from ftp.qualcomm.com
in /eudora/servers/unix/popper install the binary in /usr/sbin, maybe as
'in.popd' or whatever you want to call it, and then check the inetd.conf
entry:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.popd in.popd
^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
1 2 3
1- this is the name of the pop service from /etc/services, you should have
an entry like:
pop-3 110/tcp
it might be 'pop3' or just 'pop' but whatever the service on port 110
is called, that's what you want in (1)
2- this is the path to the binary that gets run when someone connects to
the pop port. People seem to like to put tcpwrappers on pop (in which
case you will see 'tcpd' there instead) however if you ever actually
look at your log files you might regret wrapping pop if you have users
who leave their mail open and generate logs every 15 minutes all the
time. I never put tcp wrappers on pop-3 or identd.
3- this is generally the same as (2) but without the path. It's what will
show up in 'ps' when this process is running. If you are using tcp
wrappers (ie: if (2) is 'tcpd') then this is the name of the binary
that gets run (generally in the same directory as tcpd). If you're not
running tcp wrappers, then you can really put whatever you like here..
but for convention I suggest 'in.popd'.
test to make sure it works by telnet-ing to port 110 (telnet localhost 110)
and then try: 'user <valid user>', 'pass <password>' and see if it logs
you in.
> 2) I tried to install Appleshare support. I failed, apparently. I
> followed the instructions at http://www.biap.com/Linux/asip.html to
> the letter, and then did the 'test' and got the following error:
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91atalk: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91atalk: line 84: syntax
> error: unexpected end of file
>
> (with no line break, of course.) Anyone have a clue?
You probably have a misplaced comment, or an unterminated 'if'. Look at
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91atalk closely.
nm
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